People v. Sanchez

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Juan M. Merchan, J.), entered on or about March 19, 2015, which adjudicated defendant a level three predicate sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it declined to grant a downward departure from the presumptive override to level three for a prior felony sex crime conviction (see generally People v Howard, 27 NY3d 337, 339 [2016]; People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841 [2014]). The mitigating factors cited by defendant were…